concern

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a going concern

A business, enterprise, or activity that has done well thus far and is expected to continue making a profit. The odds weren't great setting up another café in town, but it has since become a going concern.

concern (someone) in (something)

concern (oneself) about (something)

To become focused on someone or something because one feels partly responsible for dealing with it. Your mother really doesn't need to concern herself about our financial issues—we're perfectly capable of sorting them out on our own.

concern (someone) with (someone or something)

1. To involve someone in something to the extent that they feel partly responsible for dealing with it. You really don't need to concern your mother with our financial issues—we're perfectly capable of sorting them out on our own.

2. To cause someone to worry about something. I don't want to concern my parents with this news until we get more information about how serious the illness is.

to whom it may concern

To the person to whom this letter applies or to whom it ultimately reaches. A formal address used at the beginning of a letter or email when the appropriate or ultimate recipient's identity is unknown. To whom it may concern: I am writing today to lodge a formal complaint against your company.

concern someone in something

to bring someone into some matter; to engage someone in something; to occupy someone with something. Don't concern Dave in our party planning. He doesn't know anything about entertaining.The wrong committee was concerned in this from the very beginning.

concern someone with someone or something

to busy someone with someone or something; to worry someone with thoughts of someone or something. I hope Jennifer does not concern herself with this matter.Try to concern him with something other than his work.

to whom it may concern

Cliché to the person to whom this applies. (A form of address used when you do not know the name of the person who handles the kind of business you are writing about.) The letter started out, "To whom it may concern."When you don't know who to write to, just say, "To whom it may concern."

to whom it may concern

To the appropriate recipient for this message, as in I didn't know who was responsible for these complaints so I just addressed it "to whom it may concern ." This phrase is a formula used in letters, testimonials, and the like when one does not know the name of the proper person to address. [Second half of 1800s]

With regard to national issues, the most urgent concern was increasing workers' pay (45 percent) while 31 to 34 percent cited controlling inflation, reducing poverty, criminality, creating more jobs and fighting corruption in government.

Positive media stereotypes and school images of intellectually gifted students usually do not make a compelling argument that there are, in fact, a multitude of social and emotional concerns in this population.

Other ways to communicate concern include providing financial information about retirement investments, offering fitness and stress-reduction classes, and having a guidance counselor available to advise parents about college admissions and costs.

He expressed concern about a recent request to the IRS from the Senate Finance Committee to turn over more than 400 APAs and their underlying documentation, the names of all professionals employed by the APA unit in the last 10 years, and a summary of all disciplinary actions brought against APA and competent authority personnel for the last three years.

In one group, a student said "it's not like we're 40 and have to worry about high cholesterol," similarly in another group, a student stated that "it is a concern, but not a top priority" and another participant added that "[students] do not care unless it's serious.

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